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and maybe you know i to give us a moment or to remind us how that came about. >> would exist on paper doesn't often fully exist in reality. the united states became independent in 1783, nominate by the way of the treaty of paris but it wasn't fully recognized by european powers as a full equal. as time went on, it became clear and clear that the united states was not regarded as a full sovereignty to the war until the late 1790s, 796 i think was, red coated rigid soldiers flying the british flag on american territory. it was clearly american territory in northern ohio and michigan, wisconsin and the thing for sure time in indiana until eventually removed by j street it was clearly an illegal occupation by the mistakes military, could drink about. despite the fact that this is violation of the terms of the treaty. after that, the british continued to interview with the indian trade, tried to monopolize very thoughtful portrait of the northwest for territory with a great deal of success. the loyalty of the indians to the great father, the king, king george who we thought we were rid of.
and maybe you know i to give us a moment or to remind us how that came about. >> would exist on paper doesn't often fully exist in reality. the united states became independent in 1783, nominate by the way of the treaty of paris but it wasn't fully recognized by european powers as a full equal. as time went on, it became clear and clear that the united states was not regarded as a full sovereignty to the war until the late 1790s, 796 i think was, red coated rigid soldiers flying the...
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that resonate with us today. this november each political party will have 10,000 lawyers monitoring there election. if there any regularities or any sloppiness or any fraud, you cas bet that this will go to court. we came only a few thousand votes away from john kerry challenging the ohio electionhae resultsat in 2004 and that could've launched the same process all over again.is walter ds ean burnham, the deanf american political scientists say we have a sloppy selection system of any industrialized democracy. e time to take remedial steps will the election to minimize the sloppiness, incompetents, and from. from has distorted history in american life. it just like to be decent and animals college students. and live in new jersey, one of the most corrupt political machines ever. the men there for 40 years. what it @booktv? because of its wooden ones. in 1935 be honest about association, the do that is another day some 245 princeton, students to one of the election. the beat of five of them within the or the arriv
that resonate with us today. this november each political party will have 10,000 lawyers monitoring there election. if there any regularities or any sloppiness or any fraud, you cas bet that this will go to court. we came only a few thousand votes away from john kerry challenging the ohio electionhae resultsat in 2004 and that could've launched the same process all over again.is walter ds ean burnham, the deanf american political scientists say we have a sloppy selection system of any...
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that's the word used. ro, lie this remained a ce in texas the nomination but he never won a primary in which evangelicals cast a majority of the vote to you i was really paradoxical ting going on in republican pima whheh ehemci w th cdaasni e gelil vote, rick santorum. and newt gingrich in a couple of states. and so i hope that doesn't happen, but i hope that also leads to discipline on the other side. that if those of uswoa raayoms onshn' asu icdo believe, and then i hope the other side will show restraint of upbringing of the jeremiah wright issue and suggest that president obama agrees with everything jeremiah wright ever said i would also be untaherject oe re wt acly about. and i actully spoke to richard land who is a christian conservative and asked him flat out what'soing to happen with evangelicals and romeyon iu spihedesn't strong support mitt romney, and he said that his impression is that the strongest opposition is likely to come from baptist, in his case, but evangelicals believe in areas where
that's the word used. ro, lie this remained a ce in texas the nomination but he never won a primary in which evangelicals cast a majority of the vote to you i was really paradoxical ting going on in republican pima whheh ehemci w th cdaasni e gelil vote, rick santorum. and newt gingrich in a couple of states. and so i hope that doesn't happen, but i hope that also leads to discipline on the other side. that if those of uswoa raayoms onshn' asu icdo believe, and then i hope the other side will...
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we have to use a metaphor. i call it a short sense of separation kind of like italian neighborhoods where you can speak over the short fans. you can be friendly. that's a much better description of what we're talking about. just because the constitution does not have the phrase wall of separation, not it is a private human sacrifice. so come on. i wrote the book because unfortunately had think our american spirit is still alive. we can turn this nation around, but unfortunately we have become a very of our constitution. it does not come to you in the bloodstream. it has to be taught. that's what i'm attempting to do. a few short examples indelicate to some questions. i'm told all the time how is it a shame the president to have that pledge of allegiance has been taken of public-school. the implication that it's been taken up by a supreme court of the interstates. that is a false statement. it's false. the ninth circuit removed the underdog frays and therefore from the year 2000 forward that was reversed on a te
we have to use a metaphor. i call it a short sense of separation kind of like italian neighborhoods where you can speak over the short fans. you can be friendly. that's a much better description of what we're talking about. just because the constitution does not have the phrase wall of separation, not it is a private human sacrifice. so come on. i wrote the book because unfortunately had think our american spirit is still alive. we can turn this nation around, but unfortunately we have become a...
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something the might have brought us together what was left unfinished. the but he never noticed the story of what we didn't do together, the conversations we didn't have and the projects we didn't finish of the stories he left out as the end her life about which i knew so little. of what our relationship could have been but wasn't. the bonus march itself reminds me of the relationship between a searching child and a detached father. the effort perhaps to collect that. my taxi driver is continuing to speed. the route that is different from the one i usually take that that's okay. taxi drivers navigating the corner to my parents' house could be difficult. getting away from it had never been a problem. for me the opposite has always been true. like my father, i've always had trouble leaving chicago behind. but when i do finally get inside zero here and look at the departure monitor and find my flight, i see that it's the first one of the day and it's right on time. [applause] so, that's where the book begins. as i said it starts with an airplane ride and ta
something the might have brought us together what was left unfinished. the but he never noticed the story of what we didn't do together, the conversations we didn't have and the projects we didn't finish of the stories he left out as the end her life about which i knew so little. of what our relationship could have been but wasn't. the bonus march itself reminds me of the relationship between a searching child and a detached father. the effort perhaps to collect that. my taxi driver is...
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and we don't want anybody taking that away from us. you know, there've been lawsuits against even the pledge of allegiance. they have not succeeded with those yet, but who knows if one of the greatest powers of the president is the power to appoint judges. if obama points another alayna kay hagan, that will control our country for the next 50 years. we can't afford that. so your up for this ..
and we don't want anybody taking that away from us. you know, there've been lawsuits against even the pledge of allegiance. they have not succeeded with those yet, but who knows if one of the greatest powers of the president is the power to appoint judges. if obama points another alayna kay hagan, that will control our country for the next 50 years. we can't afford that. so your up for this ..
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tell us, put this in context. obama there much of the time, doing voter registration drive that benefits carol which she ran. >> guest: in 1992. >> host: put obama in context of washington, and particularly how his relationship with independent black politics, coalition black politics transforms as he begins from the city and local stage to the gnarl -- national stage. >> host: there's a lot going on. runs against bobby rush, a community center black nationalist, independent, gets squashed. don't win. he talks about the need to build coalitions which is, you know, true, and overwhelmingly black congressional district in a racially polarized city, and so you have that, but there's others i talk about. it's just not where he sits among dependents which is important, but there's a guy nay the name of jones who's president of the illinois senate. you know, he's been in the trenches, comes out machine, you know, i met him because, you know, i did redistricting work for the illinois senate as a consul at that particular
tell us, put this in context. obama there much of the time, doing voter registration drive that benefits carol which she ran. >> guest: in 1992. >> host: put obama in context of washington, and particularly how his relationship with independent black politics, coalition black politics transforms as he begins from the city and local stage to the gnarl -- national stage. >> host: there's a lot going on. runs against bobby rush, a community center black nationalist, independent,...
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tell us a little bit about what that is. what is the primary distinction or fissure in black politics in this chapter? >> guest: the big difference and i want to be clear it's not just black politics. right in the mid-1960's when we have discussions about voting rights and the voting rights bill, black leaders and black people began to talk about what their vision of black evil in politics and electoral politics should look like. on the one side you had malcolm x and his famous speech the ballot for the elect where he talks about black voters should not be taken for granted, that there should be basically community centered issues that matter, no matter what the color of the politician is and those politicians should be held accountable based on what they did or did not do in the interest of the community. on the other side you had a more coalition focus perspective in and in a famous essay he wrote in the 1960's from protest to politics. he really was trying to steer the protest movement into electoral politics as a part of
tell us a little bit about what that is. what is the primary distinction or fissure in black politics in this chapter? >> guest: the big difference and i want to be clear it's not just black politics. right in the mid-1960's when we have discussions about voting rights and the voting rights bill, black leaders and black people began to talk about what their vision of black evil in politics and electoral politics should look like. on the one side you had malcolm x and his famous speech the...
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tell us about where he stands from the beginning to the en. what really makes him a kind of central independent black nationalist kind of candidate? >> guest: he is more complex than that. harold washington, a brilliant politician, great orator, and he really laid it on the ground of what the implications were about that election. and he had to be virtually dragged into running. there was a whole movement prior to getting him to run. led mostly by this activist by the name of lou palmer, who i talk about in the book. a political activist and not a political organizer. there's a difference and we can talk about that. and so carol washington was -- i would say was on the border between the black nationalists as well as the traditional independents because he had experience. he had tried to work in the machine, to make progress. he had grant for mayor in the 1970s. there were some sort of black machine politicians who went along with the -- the white machine candidates that way, heard washington called them the biggest uncle tom on god's green ea
tell us about where he stands from the beginning to the en. what really makes him a kind of central independent black nationalist kind of candidate? >> guest: he is more complex than that. harold washington, a brilliant politician, great orator, and he really laid it on the ground of what the implications were about that election. and he had to be virtually dragged into running. there was a whole movement prior to getting him to run. led mostly by this activist by the name of lou palmer,...
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she could not use --he first person singular pronoun was an enemy of jeanne's. she couldn't bring herself to do the sort of e mest veti, enge -- personal revelation into her million missouri and -- memoirs, and i talked too her trying to convince her, and she was like, i'd like too but i can't. ani sd,'lelp y doew a do a syllabus -- naive of me, work as an editor of your own life rather than a creator of your own life. so we went long like that for quite a number of conversations, andhell wna lyom hdo it, and after she died, i thought, this is the kind of promiseo keep. it's not as she herself said, a big life, but it's a very important life, and i did this book to keep her moryre >>os tt mp -- explains the title, boy r "the big little life." it's important to arabout the values shelash in the heartland. and she grew up in a socty where the values were very good, but whereir yom ot nessalyge get a four-year college degree or have a career. so if you could talk about her family background and the things that informed her view of life and of society and politics a
she could not use --he first person singular pronoun was an enemy of jeanne's. she couldn't bring herself to do the sort of e mest veti, enge -- personal revelation into her million missouri and -- memoirs, and i talked too her trying to convince her, and she was like, i'd like too but i can't. ani sd,'lelp y doew a do a syllabus -- naive of me, work as an editor of your own life rather than a creator of your own life. so we went long like that for quite a number of conversations, andhell wna...
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i will speak about the decision to use the bomb. and i think at the time, there was no questioning about it. and i do not think it was that great a decision. when you think about what the losses had been in the pacific, when they dug in, iwo jima, okinawa, those areas, the south weren't even part of japan formally until, like, 50 years beforehand, and the japanese had fought such a bloody battle, the lowses were so heavy, and america looked forward to that. there was no love lost between america and japan, and now we're hearing more and more as time goes on, really the extent of american antipathy to the japanese, that there were massacres on our side as well. it was -- i think there was more hostility from american people the japanese than there were to the german forces. anyway, i think that it's not a controversial decision -- not as hard a decision as we think of it today. i think it was more natural and i also think it was the right decision, and i think the fact that truman needs to drop the first bomb, is driven home by the f
i will speak about the decision to use the bomb. and i think at the time, there was no questioning about it. and i do not think it was that great a decision. when you think about what the losses had been in the pacific, when they dug in, iwo jima, okinawa, those areas, the south weren't even part of japan formally until, like, 50 years beforehand, and the japanese had fought such a bloody battle, the lowses were so heavy, and america looked forward to that. there was no love lost between...
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were trying to break us. and they have addressed. and they send the case to federal court they go out of business, and they try to take the crumbs. one of the crumbs of the ballpark in chicago. it goes back at least that far. every time there is an expansion, some of the pressure for expansion was because of congressional investigations. as to what is going on. the first round of it. and we think sometimes, i'll use the expression -- the quote from mickey mantle, when mantle was testifying about something before congress in the early 1950s. in single goes on and on and he is talking sideways and upside down and nobody knows how to follow him. and then they turned mickey mantle and say, mickey mantle, your comment? >> and he says i agree with everything that he just said. except that i have to say that. i don't know what i'm talking about. >> host: bay city, michigan. please go ahead for your question for david pietrusza. >> caller: hello, sir. i wanted your opinion on a play. i think it is one of the most historical plays in baseball
were trying to break us. and they have addressed. and they send the case to federal court they go out of business, and they try to take the crumbs. one of the crumbs of the ballpark in chicago. it goes back at least that far. every time there is an expansion, some of the pressure for expansion was because of congressional investigations. as to what is going on. the first round of it. and we think sometimes, i'll use the expression -- the quote from mickey mantle, when mantle was testifying...